Throwback Thursday: Ready for Match Day?

Tomorrow is Match Day. Our fourth-year medical students eagerly wait to find out where they will go next in their professional journeys. In honor of the big day, we look back on past Match Days.

Baylor College of Medicine students pose in what was a parking lot in 1982. Photo courtesy Baylor College of Medicine Archives

Post-match it was all smiles and pizza in 1992. Photo Courtesy Julie Boom.

Before she was in BCM’s Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Julie Boom was an excited fourth-year medical student posing in front of the Match Day board in 1992. Photo courtesy Julie Boom.

Baylor College of Medicine Senior Class President Joe Kidd, Jr., tears apart the splatter paint paper to reveal the Match Day board as students, family and friends eagerly look on. Photo courtesy Baylor College of Medicine Archives.

Baylor’s class of 2005 poses for a group portrait on Match Day./Photo courtesy Baylor College of Medicine Archives

Ripping the paper from the Match Day board 2012.

Preparing for Match Day 2013.

Students push pins into a map marking where they go next for their residency during Match Day 2013.

Want to know what Match Day was like last year? Watch highlights from the day.

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